My email update to my friend:
I hit a tragic point in my sewing. Actually, cutting. I decided the directions for what to do with the contrast fabric on the front were dumb, essentially they wanted me to fold it over at 5/8″ sew along that line and finish that edge. But I thought the fabric wasn’t heavy enough and I would have to spend a lot of time ironing everything back into place and I hate to iron. So I had the grand idea to just double those pattern pieces, fold them over and make a nice finishing stitch along the edge with that perfectly matched thread. And my idea would have worked too, except I didn’t have enough fabric to double everything, a fact I realized after I had cut out one of each of four pieces, when I needed 2 of each of four pieces.
So back to Fabric Depot I went yesterday. And let me tell you, traffic is much worse on Friday at 2:00 than on Saturday at 10:30. And guess what? No more of the material in that color. A nice lady who worked there took my sample and looked all over the place for it, but it was gone, gone, gone. So I found another piece of material, but it wasn’t the perfect match the last piece had been. Alas.
I’ve done the whole back of the dress and am quite excited as to how it turned out. I didn’t work on it today because there was potato planting in the morning and then Pink Martini had a sing-along in Pioneer Square and I couldn’t rightly not go to that, now could I? And then I had to make food for Easter and for the staff meeting. And I didn’t even get all the food made because I needed 1 cup of coffee for the cupcakes and by the time I realized that, all the coffee shops near me were closed. So I will get up and make the cupcakes tomorrow.
It’s a good thing I don’t have yoga this next week. I’m going to need the time to finish my dress.
Here’s the back. I’ve cleverly pinned it to the muslin so it will hang and make me feel all accomplished.
Here’s the replacement material. It’s shiner than the other material and not the perfect match the other material was, but it will do.
I didn't know you sewed! I learned a few years ago. You are the only person I know who actually sews clothes. Very exciting. I am trying to use more knits and figure out my mom's serger. Well, I was.
I like the pattern on the fabric!
It looks awesome already! Oh how I am on pins and needles to see the finish.
Pink Martini Sing-Along – Oh swoon! I would have LOVED that! Hopefully I was with you in Spirit, singing my little lungs out. I love the smoking song the best!